by Edith Wharton · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447333219
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«La edad de la inocencia» is Edith Wharton's romantic novel, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardcover (316 pages, in Spanish).
Newland Archer, a young lawyer in New York high society, is engaged to May Welland. The arrival of Ellen Olenska, May's cousin and separated from a scandalous marriage in Europe, awakens in him an attraction that clashes with conventions. The novel pits love against duty in a world of appearances.
Originally published in 1920 as The Age of Innocence, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. This edition includes a translation by María Rosa Duhart.
For readers of classic and romantic fiction interested in period portraits and moral conflicts.
Edith Newbold Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of upper-class New York society to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
